YouTube General Search API (V1)

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Search YouTube by keyword with optional type, upload-date, duration, feature, and sort filters, or continue with a token. Use it to discover videos, channels, playlists, or movies.

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Default	Description
token	query	string	Yes	-	Access token for this API service.
keyword	query	string	No		Search keyword. Required on the first request; leave empty when using a continuation token.
continuationToken	query	string	No		Pagination token returned by the previous response.
uploadDate	query	string	No	-	Filter results by upload date. Available Values: - last_hour: Uploaded within the last hour - today: Uploaded today - this_week: Uploaded this week - this_month: Uploaded this month - this_year: Uploaded this year
type	query	string	No	-	Filter results by result type. Available Values: - video: Video results - channel: Channel results - playlist: Playlist results - movie: Movie results
duration	query	string	No	-	Filter video results by duration. Supported request values: short, medium, long. Available Values: - SHORT: Short videos under 4 minutes - MEDIUM: Medium videos from 4 to 20 minutes - LONG: Long videos over 20 minutes
features	query	string	No	-	Feature filters separated by commas. Supported values: live, 4k, hd, subtitles, creative_commons, 360, vr180, 3d, hdr. Available Values: - live - FOUR_K - hd - subtitles - creative_commons - THREE_SIXTY - vr180 - THREE_D - hdr
sortBy	query	string	No	-	Sort order for search results. Available Values: - relevance: Sort by relevance - upload_date: Sort by upload date - view_count: Sort by view count - rating: Sort by rating

Code Samples

💡 Environment Note

Use https://api.justoneapi.com by default. Alternative: http://47.117.133.51:30015.

🐚 cURL

curl --max-time 120 -X GET 'https://api.justoneapi.com/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY'

🤖 AI Prompt

I want to use the "General Search (V1)" API from Just One API.
Base URL: use https://api.justoneapi.com by default. Mainland China users can use http://47.117.133.51:30015 instead.
API Path: /api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY
API Endpoint: BASE_URL + /api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY
HTTP Method: GET
Authentication: Append the "token" query parameter to the URL.
OpenAPI Definition: https://docs.justoneapi.com/openapi/youtube/general-search-v1-en.json

Parameters:
- token (query): Access token for this API service. (Required)
- keyword (query): Search keyword. Required on the first request; leave empty when using a continuation token.
- continuationToken (query): Pagination token returned by the previous response.
- uploadDate (query): Filter results by upload date.

Available Values:
- `last_hour`: Uploaded within the last hour
- `today`: Uploaded today
- `this_week`: Uploaded this week
- `this_month`: Uploaded this month
- `this_year`: Uploaded this year
- type (query): Filter results by result type.

Available Values:
- `video`: Video results
- `channel`: Channel results
- `playlist`: Playlist results
- `movie`: Movie results
- duration (query): Filter video results by duration. Supported request values: short, medium, long.

Available Values:
- `SHORT`: Short videos under 4 minutes
- `MEDIUM`: Medium videos from 4 to 20 minutes
- `LONG`: Long videos over 20 minutes
- features (query): Feature filters separated by commas. Supported values: live, 4k, hd, subtitles, creative_commons, 360, vr180, 3d, hdr.
- sortBy (query): Sort order for search results.

Available Values:
- `relevance`: Sort by relevance
- `upload_date`: Sort by upload date
- `view_count`: Sort by view count
- `rating`: Sort by rating

Return format: safely handle JSON or text according to the actual Content-Type.

Response Handling & Error Codes:
1. Business results should be determined by the "code" field in the response body (code 0 means success).
2. Timeout Recommendation: Set the request timeout to 120 seconds. If 120 seconds is too long for your use case, use at least 60 seconds, but a small number of requests may time out before receiving a result.
3. Business Code Reference:
   - 0: Success
   - 100: Invalid or Inactive Token
   - 301: Collection Failed. Please Retry.
   - 302: Rate Limit Exceeded
   - 303: Daily Quota Exceeded
   - 400: Invalid Parameters
   - 500: Internal Server Error
   - 600: Permission Denied
   - 601: Insufficient Balance
   - 602: Token Budget Exceeded
4. Code 601 means the shared account balance is insufficient. Code 602 means the current API token's own cumulative budget limit has been reached. Token budget limits do not transfer funds out of the shared account balance.

Please help me write a script in my preferred programming language to call this API and handle the response.

🐍 Python

import requests

BASE_URL = "https://api.justoneapi.com"  # Alternative server: "http://47.117.133.51:30015"

url = BASE_URL + "/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
response = requests.get(url, timeout=120)
print(response.status_code)
if response.content:
    content_type = response.headers.get("content-type", "").lower()
    if "json" in content_type:
        try:
            print(response.json())
        except ValueError:
            print(response.text)
    elif content_type.startswith("text/") or "xml" in content_type or content_type.split(";", 1)[0].strip() in {"application/javascript", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "application/graphql"}:
        print(response.text)
    else:
        with open("response.bin", "wb") as output:
            output.write(response.content)
        print(f"Saved {len(response.content)} bytes to response.bin")

🌐 JavaScript

const BASE_URL = "https://api.justoneapi.com"; // Alternative server: "http://47.117.133.51:30015"
const url = BASE_URL + "/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY";

const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: "GET",
  signal: AbortSignal.timeout(120000)
});
console.log(response.status);
const responseBytes = await response.arrayBuffer();
if (responseBytes.byteLength) {
  const contentType = (response.headers.get("content-type") || "").toLowerCase();
  const mediaType = contentType.split(";", 1)[0].trim();
  const textual = contentType.startsWith("text/") || contentType.includes("json") || contentType.includes("xml") || ["application/javascript", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "application/graphql"].includes(mediaType);
  if (textual) {
    const responseText = new TextDecoder().decode(responseBytes);
    let data = responseText;
    if (contentType.includes("json")) {
      try { data = JSON.parse(responseText); } catch { /* Keep the raw body. */ }
    }
    console.log(data);
  } else {
    console.log(`Received ${responseBytes.byteLength} binary bytes`);
  }
}

☕ Java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        final String BASE_URL = "https://api.justoneapi.com"; // Alternative server: "http://47.117.133.51:30015"
        final String url = BASE_URL + "/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY";

        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(120)).build();
        HttpRequest.Builder builder = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create(url))
            .timeout(Duration.ofSeconds(120))
            .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody());

        HttpRequest request = builder.build();

        HttpResponse<byte[]> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofByteArray());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode());
        String contentType = response.headers().firstValue("content-type").orElse("").toLowerCase();
        String mediaType = contentType.split(";", 2)[0].trim();
        if (contentType.startsWith("text/") || contentType.contains("json") || contentType.contains("xml") || mediaType.equals("application/javascript") || mediaType.equals("application/x-www-form-urlencoded") || mediaType.equals("application/graphql")) {
            System.out.println(new String(response.body(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
        } else {
            Files.write(Path.of("response.bin"), response.body());
            System.out.println("Saved " + response.body().length + " bytes to response.bin");
        }
    }
}

🐹 Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"time"
)

const BASE_URL = "https://api.justoneapi.com" // Alternative server: "http://47.117.133.51:30015"

func main() {
	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 120 * time.Second}
	url := BASE_URL + "/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.StatusCode)
	bodyBytes, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	contentType := strings.ToLower(resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
	mediaType := strings.TrimSpace(strings.SplitN(contentType, ";", 2)[0])
	if strings.HasPrefix(contentType, "text/") || strings.Contains(contentType, "json") || strings.Contains(contentType, "xml") || mediaType == "application/javascript" || mediaType == "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" || mediaType == "application/graphql" {
		fmt.Println(string(bodyBytes))
	} else {
		os.WriteFile("response.bin", bodyBytes, 0600)
		fmt.Printf("Saved %d bytes to response.bin\n", len(bodyBytes))
	}
}

🐘 PHP

<?php
$BASE_URL = 'https://api.justoneapi.com'; // Alternative server: "http://47.117.133.51:30015"
$url = $BASE_URL . '/api/youtube/search/v1?token=YOUR_API_KEY';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
$contentType = strtolower((string) curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE));
curl_close($ch);
echo $status . PHP_EOL;
$mediaType = trim(explode(';', $contentType, 2)[0]);
if (str_starts_with($contentType, 'text/') || str_contains($contentType, 'json') || str_contains($contentType, 'xml') || in_array($mediaType, ['application/javascript', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'application/graphql'], true)) {
    echo $response;
} else {
    file_put_contents('response.bin', $response);
    echo 'Saved ' . strlen($response) . ' bytes to response.bin' . PHP_EOL;
}

[OpenAPI Definition (JSON)]

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